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...eyes, especially TV's, will be on Washington this week when Luci Johnson marries Patrick Nugent. Special programs both live and taped will cover virtually every aspect of the event, except the ceremony in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. CBS leads off with a wedding-eve special on Friday from 10 to 11 p.m. NBC and ABC join in on Saturday with live coverage from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., plus taped recaps of the highlights on all three networks in the evening...
...part, if only by resolving to have the ceremony performed in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception-largest Roman Catholic Church in the U.S.-the President's younger daughter opted automatically for pomp above privacy. No one has ever been married before in the great hilltop edifice in northeast Washington, with its mosaic domes, 30 satellite chapels and ornate, still-incomplete interior that has had to be cleared of scaffolding for the occasion. Actually, it is normal Catholic practice for a girl to be married in her own parish church; Luci's happens to be St. Matthew...
Absent Brother. There will be nothing inconspicuous about the event starting at 11 a.m. Saturday, when the National Shrine's 56-bell carillon thunders into a window-rattling medley of works by Handel, Bach, Purcell and a new composition by Dutch-born Johan Franco. During the hour-long tintinnabulation, the principals and their guests will arrive under the unblinking scrutiny of TV. Inside-mercifully beyond reach of electronic peeping-the company and a pool of newsmen will see the father of the bride decked out in the formal regalia, morning coat and striped trousers, that he refused...
...discovering America." So wrote Lyndon's mother in the family album in 1908. The celebrated passage now hangs, framed, in the replica of his five-room birthplace, which has just been built on the original's decayed foundation. Another bit of memorabilia in the new presidential shrine, which is just a mile from the present L.B.J. ranch: a china-doll clown that was a Christmas present to an aunt from little Lyndon, then four. "He proudly handed it over," burbled a White House press release, "telling her delightedly that it cost a dime and was worth every cent...
...wedding of a President's daughter since Eleanor Wilson's in 1914, the biggest problem-whom to invite?-kept Luci and her mother mulling endlessly over Christmas-card lists and guest rosters from earlier parties. The ceremony will take place in Washington's huge Roman Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, but invitations were limited by the President's wish that all their guests be invited both to the church and to the reception, and the White House resembles a rush-hour subway when more than 1,000 people invade...